Training flight: US military plane crashes in Mediterranean, 5 dead

BA US military plane crashed during a training mission in the Mediterranean Sea, killing all 5 people on board. The US European Command (Eucom) announced on Sunday that none of the five soldiers on board survived. According to reports, the engine “broke” during a training flight on Friday and fell into the sea.

Eucom initially did not provide any information on the type of aircraft or the exact location of the training flight. After the start of the war between Israel and the radical Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the United States increased its military presence in the region, sending, among other things, the aircraft carrier “USS Gerald R. Ford” and several warships to the east. The Mediterranean Sea.

More recently, due to the Gaza war, the United States moved several warships to the Eastern Mediterranean as a blockade, including the aircraft carriers “USS Dwight D. Eisenhower” and “USS Gerald R. Ford”. Air force forces have also already been deployed to the region.

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